Bill Moyers Tells Tavis Smiley Television Isn't Liberal Enough
Did you know that television isn't liberal enough?
That's what Bill Moyers told PBS's Tavis Smiley Friday (video follows with transcript of commentary):
BILL MOYERS, PBS: Television, including public television, rarely gives a venue to people who have refused to buy into the ruling ideology of Washington. The ruling ideology of Washington is, “We have two parties, they do their job, they do their job pretty well. The differences between them limit the terms of the debate.” But we know that real change comes from outside the consensus. Real change comes from people making history, challenging history, dissenting, protesting, agitating, organizing. Those voices that challenge the ruling ideology - two parties, the best of all worlds do a pretty good job - those voices get constantly pushed to the, to the stage, to the areas of the stage you can’t see or hear.
Just who is offering a "stage" for such voices. Try to guess:
MOYERS: You can get, you get some voices like those on your show, you get them on Amy Goodman, on "Democracy Now," and a few other places like that, but not as a steady presence in the public discourse.
So, in Moyers' view, the perilously liberal "Democracy Now," Amy Goodman, and Tavis Smiley are offering a stage for voices that are "challenging history, dissenting, protesting, agitating, organizing." And we need more venues for such voices.
Imagine that: television isn't liberal enough. Who'd have thought it?
But there was more in this discussion between two of the most radical tax-funded media figures in the nation that was destined to raise some eyebrows:
TAVIS SMILEY, HOST: I read the charter of what public television and public radio were created to do, and I say this, and it may be politically incorrect to say on PBS, but we are not living up to that charter. We're not living up to it on public television, we’re not living up to it on public radio when it comes to a diversity and inclusion of other voices. We’re not living up to that. So I wonder whether or not in some ways we deserve being pricked a little bit, pushed a little bit if we're not living up to the charter, but you tell me.
So Smiley is concerned that PBS and NPR aren't living up to their charter because they're not offering a diversity of views. That's a concept most conservatives would agree with.
However, to someone like Moyers, diversity means - wait for it! - more liberal opinion:
MOYERS: I don't think we're living up to that charter that Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, no, I don't. The conservatives have won to this extent: too many people in public television and public radio are looking over their shoulders fearing that the Right is after them. We don't really have a Left in this country. There is no organized Left that comes after journalists the way that the Right comes after journalists who offer a different alternative. This is an old story, Tavis. Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan, his communications director, tried to do in public broadcasting back in the early ’70s when they accused us of being liberal when in fact we were just offering an alternative view of reality – something they don’t want.
Got that?
Public television and public radio are not fulfilling their charter because they're not liberal enough.
Any questions?
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Comments
Here's the "NPR Charter," today.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 3:35pm.
Well, here's the NPR Charter, Noel - Yep, this is not liberal/leftist enough??
NPR. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now hands it over to Noam Chomsky: "The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World"
Go to the link and read ole Chomsky's answer.
Yikes.
Once again, Bill Moyers - Name us a true Republican serving as an anchor, etc., at NPR, CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, or MSNBC. Just one.
Find us one, in the MSM, who will challenge the Obama administration to listen to someone besides the 25% (Pew Poll) who support his immigration agenda.
(;~/ gary
Let me
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 3:38pm.
Let me see..............you've got an over-the-hill pathological has-been liar, who's made a pretty good career out of being a useless lib..................telling this to a delusional angry racist lib......that TV isn't 'liberal' enough???
It's a good thing for Moyers that the Liberal media he was ...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:40pm.
on (PBS) depended on taxpayer dollars and not ratings or else he would have been toast and done long ago. I, for one, can proudly say, I never watched his stupid show and apparently not many other people watched his stupid show either. P.S. Please don't ask me how I know his show is stupid if I've never watched it. The answer is, I'm familiar with his quotes and his politics and anybody who says and believes what he says and believes could not have anything else but a stupid show.
Hey Jim............aloha!!
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:48pm.
Hey Jim............aloha!! Don't worry - I've got your back. I HAVE stumbled across some pieces that this drip did, and watched JUST ENOUGH of them to know where he's coming from.......and, like you say, you don't have to watch this guy to figure it out.
And who the hell is this angry Smiley guy??? Is he self-important or something?? These two twerps remind me of a couple of wanna-be's (well, an EX-wanna-be, in Moyer's case) sitting around in some dingy bar, trying to sound like they matter..................when nobody else could give a rip - including the bartender.
Smiley is just
Submitted by adamsmith on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 7:20am.
Tavis Smiley is just another racist race hustler who preaches to Black Americans how they need to stay on the Democrat Plantation and be good little Socialists. Never to question the authority they let control their lives, and never have a hope of improving their lot in life, or their children for that matter, as "Crackers" will always hold them down. Nice work if you can get it, and I'm sure George Soros sends him a nice monthly bonus check for the Josef Goebbels routine. God forbid Black Americans ever figure out that they have been used by "their own".....The Democrat Party would never win another election. That's the danger of employing Identity Politics......
Uncle Tavis?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 12:42pm.
Let me get this straight. If Tavis Smiley is selling out the interests of other black people, and is beholden to "the man", doesn't that make him an Uncle Tom? Ironic, no?
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
These two clowns should join a circus...
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 3:59pm.
...and take this act of theirs on the road.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Great Idea, Dave.
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:01pm.
But in order to pay their way, they would need a government subsidy. No one would buy any tickets to their "circus".
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Has the jury reached a verdict?
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:19pm.
MOYERS: ". . . Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan, his communications director, tried to do in public broadcasting back in the early ’70s when they accused us of being liberal when in fact we were just offering an alternative view of reality – something they don’t want."
And with that statement, Moyers convicts PBS.
.
And also, with that
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:26pm.
And also, with that statement, he gave one of the best descriptions of liberalism that I've ever heard - 'an alternative view of reality'!!!!!!
Unbelievable...well, not really....
Submitted by 98ZJUSMC on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 7:11am.
An. Alternate. View. Of. Reality.
?
*Double Facepalm*
Understanding that statement will tell you all you need to know about Moyers "nonexistent" Left. I wonder if these people ever listen to themselves?
What kind of drugs does Moyers take?
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:18pm.
Seriously. I want to know.
No Left??
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:38pm.
Has moyers completely lost it?? No left in broadcasting today? The left has been broadcasting on radio and tv for centuries and only recently, now have competition with Fox, millions of viewers, Rush with millions of listeners, Newsbusters and Breitbart with millions of followers. The left is outraged that they now have competition. Americans are wising up and even with Soros cash, the msm is going down. Wonder why these has beens like moyers keep trying to push their agenda. No one cares or listens.
Right!
Submitted by Lord-come-soon-... on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:16pm.
Bill Moyers Tells Tavis Smiley Television Isn't Liberal Enough
Lord-come-soon-please tells Bill Moyers, "Hey Bill, you aren't irrelevant enough. Can you possibly get more irrelevant? You are a washed up hack, as in Dan Ratheresque type of washed up hack. Try something else. I hear McDonalds is hiring".
Moyers should keep his mouth shut and therefore not ...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:26pm.
reveal what a 'dumbass' he is. Is he Bill Maher in a different body?
Nah.............Moyers is the
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:53pm.
Nah.............Moyers is the kind of old fool that you'd just laugh at - like some guy stuck in the past who's lost a bunch of his marbles, but still thinks that he matters. Donkeyface is the kind of smart-ass punk who you'd bitch-slap a couple of times, just to give him something to think about - although he's probably too dumb to know why it happened..........
Maher is Moyers with a snarky attitude
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 3:55pm.
They are both arrogrant Leftists who sincerely believe that their politics resides just slightly left of center.
This on the heels of BS-NBC's
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:53pm.
This on the heels of BS-NBC's frothing rage that Huckabee's cartoon was 'brainwashing' kids.
Moyers and Smiley will never be happy until they can snatch babies from their mothers and raise them in liberal cattle pens like Pol Pot did, forcing them to watch 'West Wing' and 'Brokeback Mountain' with their eyelids held open by toothpicks.
Heh.................
Submitted by 98ZJUSMC on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 7:16am.
Moyers and Smiley will never be happy until they can snatch babies from their mothers and raise them in liberal cattle pens
Been to a classroom in the last 15 years?
An alternate view of reality Bill?!?
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 6:45pm.
Exactly which alternate views does Moyers think aren't in the discourse? Do we really need any more liberal induced hallucinations of our current reality? Moyers refuses to acknowledge the "reality" of the liberal reasons why this nation is circling the drain.
Moyers has obviously not read up on the damage that Lyndon Johnson caused with his "Great Society" debacle or he wouldn't be foolish enough to lament not living up to his "charter". Maybe if he'd lift his head out of his cocktail long enough to achieve lucidity he'd start making a little sense. -bidn-
Moyers gives us another "face palm" moment.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 7:56pm.
This just calls for another "Oh brother, you've got to be kidding" comment from America. There's a tavern down by our welfare office for Smiley to draw from for more guests. -bidn-
Of course, Moyers, who spent
Submitted by jdhawk on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 9:56pm.
Of course, Moyers, who spent his lifetime sucking from the goverment teat via taxpayer funded public broadcasting and an avowed socialist, is full of crap. There is both an international and national cabal of leftists that work tirelessly to turn America into a socialist country.
Here is a very scary and disturbing but one of the few web sites on the Internet that captures the width and breadth of the lefist's infrastructure. It is named, Discovery the Networks - A Guide to the Politcal Left. You can find it here: http://discoverthenetworks.org/
Here is a couple of excerpts from the above web site regarding Moyers:
Host and Producer of many programs and series on public broadcasting
Has received at least $20 million in taxpayer money from public broadcasting, but refuses to disclose his income
President of Schumann Center for Media & Democracy
Played key role in shaping socialist "Great Society" programs in President Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration
Authorized notorious LBJ "Daisy" ad in 1964 that suggested Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater would, if elected, cause nuclear war
Moyers announced in February 2004 that he would retire after the November elections. By that time, as many as 30 PBS affiliates had ceased airing Moyers' partisan show Now during pledge drives, partly because its blatant bias alienated many potential contributors. Now had also become an ethical embarrassment because Moyers, as of 2003, had used his taxpayer-subsidized PBS show to promote guests from at least 16 leftist organizations that had gotten at least $4.8 million in grants from the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. Moyers had neglected to inform his audience of this conflict of interest involving an organization of which he was President and from which he personally pocketed $200,000 per year.
Like Maher, Moyers was kicked off a nationlly televised program because of his far left biases and in Moyers case graft and corruption.
Dirty Old Moyers wants to see tits...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 10:20pm.
...more naked lady stuff. That's what he means by 'not liberal' enough.
Moyers said one thing right.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 6:27am.
We don't really have a Left in this country.
Because, to liberals, there is no "left." There are only "normal" people and right-wingers.
What he is saying is the
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 11:32am.
What he is saying is the liberal left need to get rid of Fox News. They fail to realize that the internet is their waterloo. We can find out the truth, instead of listening to their lies.
Bill Moyer's NPR Schedule:
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 11:32am.
9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon: North Korea Radio Broadcasting Translation to English and Spanish
12:00 Noon - 3:00PM: Al Jazeera Translation to English and Ebonics
3:00 - 6:00 PM: Radio Havana Remembering the Greats: Che Guevara, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot,....
6:00- 9:00PM Bill Moyers interviews top Democrats about strategy to outlaw Republican Party
9:00PM - 12:00: Midnight: Radio Tehran program "Weekly Terrorism in Review"
12:00 - 3:00 AM History of the Glory Days of Communism: Great Purge, Famines, Gulag,...
3:00 - 6:00 AM Progressiveism's Great Accomplishments in Education: Political Correctness etc.
6:00- 9:00AM Moyers conducts discussion about positive influence George Soros has on the News Media
That only proves these people
Submitted by Trosp on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:03pm.
That only proves these people only reads and will only read the leftards opinions.
Senilty has .......................
Submitted by Patriot II on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 11:16am.
hit Moyers hard! Go home, take your pills and STFU!!!